Events from the year 1554 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents Monarch – Mary, Queen of Scots Mary of Guise inaugurated as Regent, in succession to James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault
Events 12 April – Mary of Guise is declared Regent of Scotland at a meeting of the Parliament of Scotland in Edinburgh.Lucinda H. S. Dean, "In the Absence of an Adult Monarch", Kate Buchanan, Lucinda Dean, Michael Penman, Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (Routledge, 2016), pp. 152–154: Rosalind K. Marshall, Mary of Guise (Collins, 1977), p. 198. 28 December – Edinburgh burgh council resolves to produce a play written by William Lauder (poet), probably as a New Year's Day gift to Mary of Guise.Amy Blakeway, Regency in Scotland (Boydell, 2015), p. 134: James Dibdin, Annals of the Edinburgh Stage, p. 9.
Births Robert Bruce of Kinnaird William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay
Deaths 29 August – Norman Leslie (soldier), veteran of the siege of St Andrews Castle.
Buildings and architecture 22 May – Date carved as "XXII MAY 1554" on the sill of an armorial panel of George Durie at Rossend Castle.W. Norman Robertson, "Two armorial panels at Rossend Castle, Burntisland, Fife", PSAS, 101 (1974), p. 236.
Literature Jephthes, sive Votum, a tragedy by George Buchanan is published in Paris.
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1554 in England 1554 in Wales 1554 in Ireland
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